FITTINGS AND APPARATUS. [Ch. iv. 



ease in manipulation than any other description. Some 

 persons also tie strings round the ancles of their trousers, 

 or use elastic bands for the same purpose. Those who 

 wear Wellington boots will be able to tuck the trousers 

 within them. 



The annexed figure represents 

 a cheaper form of bee veil which 

 we have more recently introduced. 

 It is provided with an elastic band 

 which fits round the hat, the lower 

 portion being folded under the 

 coat. There is however no pro- 

 tection to the arms. It is made 

 of the same specially constructed 

 material as the preceding^a strong 

 black net, with large meshes. 

 Thus a very simple and inexpensive means of pro- 

 tection will enable even a novice in bee-keeping to make 

 his observations and conduct his experiments under a 

 sense of- perfect security. There are, of course, those 

 who scorn all such artificial modes of protection, and 

 having inured themselves to stinging take it as a thing of 

 course, only to be restrained within some manner of 

 limit by means of the persistent smoking of cigars or 

 pipes (non-smokers such as Dzierzon use a sort of mouth- 

 fumigator). But it does not follow that none but these 

 stoics are to be permitted to manipulate with bees, other- 

 wise the number of beginners would be likely to be but 



